Null Account

[Derek Atkins]

Oh, I bet it's from the creation of a "null" account for the top of
the account-tree.

-derek

Perry Smith <pedz at easesoftware.net> writes:

> I'm working from 1.8.9 -- not the cvs tree (yet).  Do you want me to
> move up to that level, see if it happens, and then get back to you?
>
> I looked in the xml file and found the same sub accounts that the
> gnucash accounts window reports.  I looked in the xml as well for a
> null account name.  Came up with nothing.
>
> I'm not sure how to reproduce this except send you my xml file which
> is 26M.
>
> On Jul 21, 2004, at 5:16 PM, Linas Vepstas wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:59:41PM -0500, Perry Smith was heard to
>> remark:
>>> I'm going to post this to user instead of devel because its more of a
>>> user question.
>>>
>>> In the process of trying to save my data to a postgres DB, it fails
>>> when it tries to create an account with an empty name.  The db has
>>> been
>>> set up to error off in that case -- so it does.
>>>
>>> The account (parsing the info log) is a sub account of an account
>>> called "Fidelity Ultra".  The account is in Quicken (which is where
>>> the
>>> data originally came from) and it is also in gnucash.  And gnucash
>>> says
>>> the account has sub accounts but none of them have a null name.
>>>
>>> So... where to go from here?
>>
>> If you have some easy/reliable way of reproducing this, I could take
>> a look.  I assume you are working with code out of the current CVS
>> tree,
>> right?
>>
>> -- linas
>>
>>
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